Mop-wringer



(No Model.)

J. HARRIS.

MOP WRINGER.

Patented'J an. 4, '1887.

WITNESSES INVENTOR:.

y BY ATTORNBY&

N. PETERS, Plmm-Lllhogrupher. Waillinglnn. ac.

NITED STATES PATENT OFFIC JOHN HARRIS, OF LANSINGBURG, N W YORK.

MOP-WRINGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 355,522, dated January 4, 1887.

Application filed March 11, 1885. Serial No.19-l,846. (No model.)

without requiring the person handling it to.

stoop to an uncomfortable position.

' The invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations of.

parts of the mop-wringer, all as hereinafter fully described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure l is a vertical central longitudinal sectional elevation of my improved mopwringer, illustrating its use, partly in dotted lines, and as hereinafter explained; and Fig. 2 is a plan view of the mop-wringer with one side of the roller-frame part-1y broken away and in section.

I prefer to make the main body of the mopwringer in two parts-a lower part or vessel, A, to hold the water wrung from the mop, and an upper part, B, which I term the ,rollerframe, and which is held to the vessel A by screws a a, as shown. 7

In the opposite side bars of the frame B, near one end of it, there is journaled by its end gudgeons or pins 0 c the relatively stationary wringing-roller O, and the movable wringing-roller D is journaled by its end gudgeons or pins d d within slots E E, made in opposite sides of the frame Blengthwise of the frame, and preferably inclined downward toward the back end of the frame, so that the roller D will normally move outward to the ends of the slots E E by its own gravity.

To the opposite ends (1 d of roller D there is pivoted one end of rods or links F F, the other ends of which are pivoted at ff to one end of rods or arms G G, the other ends of which are fixed to the'squared ends 9 g of the end gudgeonsor pins, h h, of a treadle-bar, H,

roller D will be moved forward in the which is journaled by its pins h h in brackets I I, fixed to the front end of the vessel A, and whereby when the treadle H'is depressed the guideslots E E toward the roller 0.

The operation is-as follows: The wiping fabric J, fixed to the mop-head K, will be held by the handle L of the mop against the roller 0, whereupon the treadleH will be depressed by the foot, as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 1, which will swing the arms G G upward and draw the links F F forward to carry the roller D against the mop fabric J with any degree of force, governed by the pressure of the foot on the treadle, and while the mop fabric is so held between the rollers the mop-handle will be drawn forward to pull the fabric J out from between the rollers, which meanwhile will wring or squeeze the water from the fabric, and the entire operation may be performed well and quickly without requiring the person using the mop to stoop or bend forward, as will readily be understood. When the treadle H is released, the roller D will automatically move away from the roller 0 and carry the arms F G to the positions shown in full lines in the drawings.

An ordinary baiLhandle, M, provided with a hand-grasp, N, is fixed to the roller-frame B, for convenience in carrying the mopwringer and positioning it where required.

The vessel A and roller-frame B may be made as one vessel, and the mop-vessel may have any preferred size to hold the water used in mopping up the floor. 7

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The combination, in a mop-wringer, of a water-holding vessel having side slots, E E, a roller, 0, journaled across the vessel, a roller,

D, journaled in slots E E, links F F, pivoted to roller D, arms G G, pivoted at their upper ends to the linksF F, and a treadle, H, pivoted to the water-holding vessel and fixed to arms G G, substantially as and'for the purposes herein set forth JOHN HARRIS' Witnesses:

SAMUEL REID, GEO. H. DAVENY. 

